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Yoon Ha Lee Quote: “The Kel unsheathed their swords, each tinted differently, blank bars of light. Cheris’s ran from blue near the hilt to red at the tip. As they closed with the enemy, numbers blazed to life along the lengths of the blades: the day and the hour of your death, as the Kel liked to say.”

51. “The Kel unsheathed their swords, each tinted differently, blank bars of light. Cheris’s ran from blue near the hilt to red at the tip. As they closed with the enemy, numbers blazed to life along the lengths of the blades: the day and the hour of your death, as the Kel liked to say.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee Quote: “The point of war is to rig the deck, drug the opponent, and threaten to kneecap their family if they don’t fold.”

52. “The point of war is to rig the deck, drug the opponent, and threaten to kneecap their family if they don’t fold.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee Quote: “I’ll keep going,” Brezan said. “I have to. If it means becoming more like you, then so be it.”

53. “I’ll keep going,” Brezan said. “I have to. If it means becoming more like you, then so be it.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee Quote: “When he sounds sane and the rest of the world doesn’t, you know it’s time to pull the trigger.”

54. “When he sounds sane and the rest of the world doesn’t, you know it’s time to pull the trigger.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee Quote: “Of course, at some point you had to ask yourself how much legitimacy any government had that feared dissension within more than invasion from without, but.”

55. “Of course, at some point you had to ask yourself how much legitimacy any government had that feared dissension within more than invasion from without, but.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee Quote: “You always have a choice,” Jedao said. “It’s just that most of them are bad.”

56. “You always have a choice,” Jedao said. “It’s just that most of them are bad.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee Quote: “Dead is dead, Cheris. Do you think it makes any difference whether you’re killed by a knife in the back or a bullet?”

57. “Dead is dead, Cheris. Do you think it makes any difference whether you’re killed by a knife in the back or a bullet?”

— Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee Quote: “In the dramas people shied from Shuos assassins and saboteurs, but the ones you had to watch out for were the bureaucrats.”

58. “In the dramas people shied from Shuos assassins and saboteurs, but the ones you had to watch out for were the bureaucrats.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee Quote: “What was a shadow, after all, but a shape in the moving world reduced to a projection of possibilities?”

59. “What was a shadow, after all, but a shape in the moving world reduced to a projection of possibilities?”

— Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee Quote: “I’m not a linguist, but do you ever think there’s something wrong with the things we do and don’t have words for?”

60. “I’m not a linguist, but do you ever think there’s something wrong with the things we do and don’t have words for?”

— Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee Quote: “There’s no honor,” she said. “Only duty.”

61. “There’s no honor,” she said. “Only duty.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee Quote: “Calendrical warfare was a matter of hearts. But numbers could move hearts, with the right numbers, and with the right hearts.”

62. “Calendrical warfare was a matter of hearts. But numbers could move hearts, with the right numbers, and with the right hearts.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee Quote: “I have always believed that a properly guided bureaucracy is deadlier than any bomb.”

63. “I have always believed that a properly guided bureaucracy is deadlier than any bomb.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee Quote: “The presence of atrocity doesn’t mean you have to put your life on hold. You’ll arguably be better at dealing with the horrible things you have to witness, or even to perpetrate, if you allow yourself time to do the small, simple things that make you happy. Instead of looking for ways to destroy yourself.”

64. “The presence of atrocity doesn’t mean you have to put your life on hold. You’ll arguably be better at dealing with the horrible things you have to witness, or even to perpetrate, if you allow yourself time to do the small, simple things that make you happy. Instead of looking for ways to destroy yourself.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee Quote: “But then, war is about taking the future away from people.”

65. “But then, war is about taking the future away from people.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee Quote: “You can learn about how people think by playing with their lives, but that’s inhumane.”

66. “You can learn about how people think by playing with their lives, but that’s inhumane.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee Quote: “Jebi was torn between saying ‘You are embarrassing me’ and ‘I am going to take up my brush and make a painting of you that they will talk about for the next 10,000 years’. They said neither.”

67. “Jebi was torn between saying ‘You are embarrassing me’ and ‘I am going to take up my brush and make a painting of you that they will talk about for the next 10,000 years’. They said neither.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee Quote: “How much have they told you?” Cheris said. “About this outing?” Jedao said. “Nothing. Information is a weapon like any other. I can’t be trusted with weapons.”

68. “How much have they told you?” Cheris said. “About this outing?” Jedao said. “Nothing. Information is a weapon like any other. I can’t be trusted with weapons.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee Quote: “You have a heart of stone,” the Sea Oracle said, “but did you think that meant your nature was unyielding? If there is something the sea knows, it is that sand is nothing but stone given wisdom by the hand of water over time. And sand can be shaped. How you wish to shape the sand of your heart – that is up to you.”

69. “You have a heart of stone,” the Sea Oracle said, “but did you think that meant your nature was unyielding? If there is something the sea knows, it is that sand is nothing but stone given wisdom by the hand of water over time. And sand can be shaped. How you wish to shape the sand of your heart – that is up to you.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee Quote: “Phoenix-colored light burned behind the eye holes of the mask, like fire and fire’s yearning.”

70. “Phoenix-colored light burned behind the eye holes of the mask, like fire and fire’s yearning.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee Quote: “The winds seemed less cruel when I paused to admire the forest’s wonders.”

71. “The winds seemed less cruel when I paused to admire the forest’s wonders.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee Quote: “When people gave you work to do, you stopped being a person and became a part of the scenery. Sometimes that was convenient.”

72. “When people gave you work to do, you stopped being a person and became a part of the scenery. Sometimes that was convenient.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee Quote: “Jedao wondered how many euphemisms deep this went.”

73. “Jedao wondered how many euphemisms deep this went.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee Quote: “Since you’re so keen on working for the conquerors, you might as well rely on them for your housing too. I’m not going to share my roof with a collaborator.”

74. “Since you’re so keen on working for the conquerors, you might as well rely on them for your housing too. I’m not going to share my roof with a collaborator.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee Quote: “The studio also featured a large wall calendar with cryptic abbreviations, presumably reminders. Also doodles of gears, sprockets, and malformed genitalia, because artists were artists.”

75. “The studio also featured a large wall calendar with cryptic abbreviations, presumably reminders. Also doodles of gears, sprockets, and malformed genitalia, because artists were artists.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee Quote: “I oppose war; but I also oppose slaughter in all its forms. There wasn’t time for a more peaceful solution.”

76. “I oppose war; but I also oppose slaughter in all its forms. There wasn’t time for a more peaceful solution.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee Quote: “On the day you come to the gate between the world below, no one will guide you to the welcoming dark.”

77. “On the day you come to the gate between the world below, no one will guide you to the welcoming dark.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

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